xvi, 537 pages : 24 cm

Documenting multiple aspects of slavery and its development in North America, this collection provides more than one hundred excerpts from personal accounts, songs, legal documents, diaries, letters, and other written sources. The book assembles a portrayal of the day-to-day connections between, and among, slaves and their owners across more than two centuries of subjugation and resistance, despair and hope. Beginning with a chronicle of the origins of slavery in the British colonies of North America, the collection traces the growth of the system to the antebellum period and includes accounts of slave revolts, auctions, slave travel and laws, and family life. The documents reveal the individual views, goals, and lives of slaves and their masters

Includes songs

Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-537)

Slavery in the English colonies of North America -- Slavery survives the American Revolution -- Revolts, plots, and rumors of plots -- Slaves on the block ... slave on the road -- The slave and the law -- The slave's protest : resistance short of rebellion -- The slave's work -- Master and man -- Men, women, and children -- After hours ... beliefs and amusements

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